EXCLUSIVE: Universal International Studios’ SVP/Head of UK Creative Thomas Daley is leaving the company after two years, we’ve learned.
EXCLUSIVE: Universal International Studios’ SVP/Head of UK Creative Thomas Daley is leaving the company after two years, we’ve learned.
Disney+ has set Thursday, September 8 for the premiere of Pinocchio, Robert Zemeckis’ live-action adaptation starring Tom Hanks as Gepetto. The release is timed for Disney+ Day, a lead-in to the D23 Expo in Anaheim CA. The streamer also released the first footage in a teaser trailer below, along with key art.
here and above.Robert Zemeckis, Derek Hogue, Andrew Miano, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz are the film’s producers, with Jackie Levine, Jack Rapke, Alexandra Derbyshire and Jeremy Johns the executive producers.Alongside Hanks and Erivo will be Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket, Keegan-Michael Key as “Honest” John, Academy Award nominee Lorraine Bracco as Sofia the Seagull, a new character, and Luke Evans as The Coachman.
Nick Grad, president of original programming at FX, announced on Thursday that the network has ordered the pilot of an untitled half-hour comedy written by writer/director Lauren Ludwig. The project is a metaphysical comedy about a group of queer 20-somethings forced by the most unlikely source to confront their generational anxieties and unpack their emotional baggage. Ludwig will executive produce along with Chris & Paul Weitz through their production company Depth of Field.
Hulu’s “Crush” just dropped its first trailer, and let’s just say the trifecta playing the three main characters is fierce.Aspiring artist Paige (Rowan Blanchard) hopes to get into art school. For her application, she has to render her happiest moment so far in life through her medium of choice.When Paige is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she’s had a crush on: Gabriela Campos (Isabella Ferreira).
Hulu today set an April 29 premiere date for its untitled Sammi Cohen film, starring Rowan Blanchard (Snowpiercer) and Auli’i Cravalho (Moana), announcing that the teen romance is now titled Crush, and unveiling a few first-look photos.
Tom Hank’s Geppetto! Disney+ released the first look from the upcoming live-action o on Wednesday. In the still, Hanks is in full character as the woodcarver, who carefully constructed and built the puppet with love.
Wilson Chapman editorAmerica’s dad Tom Hanks transforms into Pinocchio’s dad in the live-action Disney Plus remake of the animated classic.“Pinocchio,” a spin on the 1940 animated Disney film of the same name, is itself adapted from Carlo Collodi’s children’s novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio.” The movie stars Hanks as Geppetto, a childless woodworker desperate for a son. The first look image shows a scruffy, white-haired Hanks admiring a not-yet animated Pinocchio (voiced in the film by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) on his workbench.
Disney+ today unveiled a first look at Tom Hanks as Geppetto in Robert Zemeckis’ live-action adaptation of Pinocchio, which is set to premiere exclusively on the streaming service this September.
In the first look photo at Robert Zemeckis’ “Pinocchio,” Tom Hanks dressed as Geppetto admires at his puppet boy wonder and re-imagines a scene that closely resembles the 1940 animated classic. The live-action film combines Zemeckis’ CG visual effects in order to bring Pinocchio to life on Geppetto’s quest to help him become a real boy.
EXCLUSIVE: James Wolk is set to jon the cast of MGM’s adaptation of The Boys In The Boat. He joins an ensemble that already includes Callum Turner, Joel Edgerton, Jack Mulhern, Sam Strike, Luke Slattery, Thomas Elms, Tom Varey, Bruce Herbelin-Earle, Wil Coban and Hadley Robinson.
EXCLUSIVE: Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz will co-write and co-direct Spanish Dracula, the true story about how silent film star and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar found a second wind starring in Spanish language versions of Hollywood films like the Universal classic Dracula. The Weitz Brothers are her grandsons, and they will produce through Depth of Field, along with Pancho Kohner. He is their uncle and author of The Sweetheart of Mexico, a memoir he helped his mother write about her most fascinating life.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaTaylor Tomlinson has mined her up-bringing in a devout Christian family for laughs in her comedy act and Netflix stand-up specials. Now, her story will be the basis of a new feature film.Village Roadshow Pictures has acquired the rights to an untitled movie based on the life of the hit stand-up comedian, outbidding several other suitors. Paul Weitz will direct from a script written by Tomlinson and Taylor Tetreau.
EXCLUSIVE: The Black List has chosen six screenwriters out of 1,400 submissions for its ninth annual Features Lab.
la famiglia.” De Niro and Maniscalco first appeared together in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman.”Depth of Field’s Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, and Andrew Miano are producing, while Judi Marmel will serve as executive producer.“The way Sebastian talks about his father, Salvo sounds to us like the type of guy who thinks that Robert De Niro should play him in a movie. So we thought, why not?” Kahane said.
la famiglia.” De Niro and Maniscalco first appeared together in Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman.”Depth of Field’s Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, and Andrew Miano are producing, while Judi Marmel will serve as executive producer.“The way Sebastian talks about his father, Salvo sounds to us like the type of guy who thinks that Robert De Niro should play him in a movie. So we thought, why not?” Kahane said.
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can tell you first that Beauty and the Beast Gaston star Luke Evans will play The Coachman in Disney+’s live-action retelling of Pinocchio, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks as Geppetto.
Out with the old, in with the new on Hulu. After revealing the the heaping list of new titles that will be added to the streaming service in February 2020, Hulu has also announced that several films will soon be disappearing from its library near the end of the month.
The film will employ the same photo-realistic CGI used on Disney's remakes of "The Jungle Book" and "The Lion King" to tell the story of the titular fawn, who befriends a rabbit and skunk before coping with the death of his mother at the hands of a hunter, reports variety.com.
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – From bears to lions to deer: Disney is developing a live-action remake of its 1942 animated feature “Bambi,” Variety has confirmed.
By Anthony D'Alessandro
From bears to lions to deer: Disney is developing a live-action remake of its 1942 animated feature “Bambi,” Variety has confirmed.
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